(Universidad de Cuenca, 2023-09-12) Patiño Enríquez, Carlos Andrés; Neira Escudero, María Gabriela
This research focuses on the study of indigenous justice in the Zhiña commune belonging to
the Nabón canton, one of the few existing indigenous territories within the canton and province
of Azuay, and which still keeps ancestral customs and practices alive. To achieve the
development of this work, social actors and former leaders of the Zhiña Commune
participated, as well as social actors belonging to the Nabón canton outside the Commune,
that through interviews and visits contributed with relevant information that was supplemented
with the use of bibliographic sources related to the topic, searching to make evident the way
that ancestral justice develops inside of this territory.
